35) When Eyre claims, moreover, "Prince am I none, yet I am nobly born, as being the sole son of a shoemaker," he directly personates Marlowe, who was the son of Canterbury shoemaker John Marlowe (1536-1605).

I think it is probably a state of self-induced hypnosis in which her hypnotic self personates different characters either consciously and deliberately, or unconsciously and believing herself to be the person she represents, and sometimes probably in a state of consciousness intermediate between the two.

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